Upgrade Migration Question (Asus A7V880 mainboard)

Hello,

The time has come for me to begin a gradual migration to a much
better system than I have right now (a Celeron 533MHz beasty).
The problem is I can't afford to do everything at once so here is
my plan for now: I already have an Athlon XP 1800+ processor that
a friend gave to me after he upgraded his system (Model-6 Palomino,
1.53GHz internal clock, and 266 MHz FSB). Today after a bit of
research, I ordered an Asus A7V880 mainboard because it offered
the greatest upgrade potential from what I have now (with support
all the way up to the Athlon XP 3200+ and a 400 MHz FSB). I want
to go ahead and populate the board with two Kingston 512MB DDR400
(PC3200) DIMMs in a dual-channel configuration. But before I order
the memory, I just want to verify that there should be no problem running
this memory at a FSB of 266 MHz with the XP 1800+ processor and
this board. Eventually I want to move up to the XP 3200+ (or better if
it comes along). Logically, underclocking "fast" memory should not pose
any problems but I've seen a few weird things with electronics in the
past so I thought it best that I check just to be sure. I'm sure many of
you have likely had experience doing something like this so please let
me know of any pitfalls to avoid or if any special BIOS settings may need
to be adjusted to run fast memory "slow" (maybe I could drop the CAS
latency down or have to increase the refresh rate to make everything work
smoothly). I appreciate your help in advance as I suspect some tweaking
could be needed. Many Thanks!!

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G.L. Cross wrote:
Hello,

The time has come for me to begin a gradual migration to a much
better system than I have right now (a Celeron 533MHz beasty).
The problem is I can't afford to do everything at once so here is
my plan for now: I already have an Athlon XP 1800+ processor that
a friend gave to me after he upgraded his system (Model-6 Palomino,
1.53GHz internal clock, and 266 MHz FSB). Today after a bit of
research, I ordered an Asus A7V880 mainboard because it offered
the greatest upgrade potential from what I have now (with support
all the way up to the Athlon XP 3200+ and a 400 MHz FSB). I want
to go ahead and populate the board with two Kingston 512MB DDR400

no problems at all board will run your memory with auto setting 400MHz
ddr. you should just check that cpu speed is correct, it may run too
slow by default.